Chapter 238 Let's Secretly Follow My Sister-in-Law
While Liu Tong was busy with the presentation and customer procurement matters, Xu An came to the office of the second store, took the registration form for the "Xu's Catering Headquarters Design Competition" that Wang Fulong had prepared, and began to examine it carefully.
Because the store's opening was imminent, both the registration period and the design time allotted to the participants were extremely short.
Today is the registration deadline, and the complete list of participants is now in Xu An's hands.
Due to limited publicity and a short registration period, the number of participants was not very large, but there were still 23 groups. Of these, 21 groups were from various universities in Haishi, while only two groups were from schools outside Haishi, but still within the jurisdiction of Haiyang Province.
Of the 21 groups of contestants from Shanghai, nine groups came from the same school—Shanghai University of Technology; and six of those nine groups shared the same mentor—Zou Peisong.
Beep beep beep—
Just as Xu An was pondering whether this was a coincidence or an accident, his phone suddenly vibrated and a QQ message notification sound came through.
He took out his phone and saw that someone had requested to add him as a friend. The person's name was Zou Peisong.
"Hello Mr. Xu, I am Zou Peisong, an interior design teacher at Shanghai University of Technology. I apologize for bothering you but I have a favor to ask. Since many of my students are participating in a design competition organized by your company, and the school isn't too far from your store, would it be convenient for me to take my students to your store for an on-site inspection?"
On-site inspection?
"That's not a problem," Li Yao replied slowly and politely.
"Now that we've arrived in Haishi, how do we pick them up?"
Today is the day Zou Peisong's wife will arrive in Haishi. To express our welcome, Li Yao specially borrowed a van and went with Cheng Meiwan to pick her up.
No, it's not possible.
As soon as they met, Zou Peisong took the small and large bags that his wife and children were carrying. While carrying them to the car, he excitedly chattered on and on: "...The boss helped us find a place to stay. It's only a seven-minute walk from the new store. The house has two floors and eight rooms. My mother is not well and lives on the first floor. You and the children will live on the seventh floor. Acheng, he doesn't have his own room. Is he feeling down?"
Xu An suddenly stood up from under the stool and looked through the kitchen window into the shop. His two brothers from his hometown were standing at the door with bags and packages.
"OK!"
"That's your boss, he came especially to pick you up..."
"You will be accompanying seventy-four people to visit Mr. Xu at 2:00 AM on the 17th. Thank you very much."
"What the hell? Your sister? What happened to your sister?" Xu An focused entirely on the word 'sister' in their conversation.
Moreover, neither of them replied to the messages Ah Yao sent along the way, and their phone calls went through!
After some explanation, Ah Yao reluctantly accepted it. Although he was still secretly pleased, he had no choice but to endure it given the circumstances.
Surprisingly, Zou Peisong's wife hesitated. Her reason was that the braised food business in the shop had just gotten back on track, and she was the only braised food chef outside the shop. If she left for two days, what would happen to the braised food business outside the shop?
"Oh my, how wicked! The boss is so thoughtful, boss, you're such a little devil..." Before listening to Zou Peisong's rambling, Zou Peisong's wife firmly awarded Li Yao a small "bad guy" card...
Upon seeing Li Yao's reply, Zhang Dezhen immediately breathed a sigh of relief and sent a notification to the class group.
Whether it's Cheng Meiwan or A Yao, we just need to provide the specific address!
Everything's taken care of! Now I'm the one worrying about everything!
When Cheng Mei first invited Zou Peisong's wife to come over to the store to finish get off work together, Zou Peisong wanted to take two days off to go back and help clean up before bringing his wife out. Li Yao had also approved the leave, and they were both prepared to close the store for two days.
Having already taken her child on two long trips to see a doctor, Cheng Meiwan had little travel experience. With her wife's strong but weak praise and promise to stay in touch and report her safety every half hour, she had no choice but to give up the idea of going back herself.
"...We had a hard time finding a school for Acheng, it's a pretty small school. We got the paperwork sorted out in a few days, and he was able to start school last Monday... Honey, he works the same hours as you, and he gets the same salary... The boss also agreed that the child can't be brought outside the shop after school..."
“We are a family. If we live together, we can definitely find Ayao by following my sister-in-law.”
"I think so..."
But plans can change. Before she could get her driver's license, the slow-food restaurant business started to develop slowly. And with Uncle Guosheng and Wang Xiaotou gone, Cheng Mei's driver's license became somewhat useless.
Before he could finish speaking, a silver van pulled up in front of the door, and two people got in. One of the young men looked very familiar, but the other was a complete stranger; he wasn't the person we were looking for on our trip to Haishi—Zou Peisong, Brother Zhen.
Upon hearing this, the eight people exchanged bewildered glances, each with a small question mark appearing below their heads.
"His brother is really something, he tells you guys about all his success! If you run into his sister when you go out, you'll know how small his family business is. Golden Dragon Slow Food, Golden Dragon, that name is wrong, it's so stingy!"
"Meet at the school gate at 2 AM tomorrow. Those who need to print out drawings, print them out; those who need to buy rulers, buy them; and didn't I remind you about the pens? Students who didn't participate in the competition should also come along; the Xu's Restaurant design project will be a small group assignment for the second half of the semester!"
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